Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts / Eric Ziolkowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ziolkowski, Eric, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Soren Kierkegaard was as much aesthete as philosopher, and his writings are as much literary and music criticism as philosophy. Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts contains fourteen essays that focus on the influence and reception of Kierkegaard in literature, the visual arts, and music. The essays in part I focus on Kierkegaard in relationship to literature, his own main medium of expression; part II, to the performing arts, including theater, music, and dance; part III, to visual arts and film; while the essays of part IV are comparative in nature, considering Kierkegaard in juxtaposition with a Romantic poet, a modern composer, and a contemporary musician, singer, and song-writer.

Contents:

Part I Literature

The Bonfire of the Genres: Kierkegaard's Literary Kaleidoscope 39

Kierkegaard's Disruptions of Literature and Philosophy: Freedom, Anxiety, and Existential Contributions 55

Kierkegaard's Existential Play: Storytelling and the Development of the Religious Imagination in the Authorship 71

Kierkegaard's Christian Bildungsroman 85

Part II Performing Arts

Beyond the Mask: Kierkegaard's Postscript as Antitheatrical, Anti-Hegelian Drama 99

A Theater of Ideas: Performance and Performativity in Kierkegaard's Repetition 115

Kierkegaard's Notions of Drama and Opera: Molière's Don Juan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the Question of Music and Sensuousness 131

"Let No One Invite Me, for I Do Not Dance": Kierkegaard's Attitudes toward Dance 149

Part III Visual Arts and Film

Painting with Words: Kierkegaard and the Aesthetics of the Icon 177

Kierkegaard's Approach to Pictorial Art, and to Specimens of Contemporary Visual Culture 193

Kierkegaard's Concept of Inherited Sin: A Cinematic Illustration 223

Part IV Comparisons

The Moravian Origins of Kierkegaard's and Blake's Socratic Literature 239

Don Giovanni and Moses and Aaron: The Possibility of a Kierkegaardian Affirmation of Music 261

Kierkegaard, Dylan, and Masked and Anonymous Neighbor-Love 281.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101376

ISBN:

9780810135970